Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak will on Monday highlight nearly £30bn of long-term investment pledges by international companies at a major business event intended to showcase Britain’s appeal to global investors. More than 200 executives are set to
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Efforts to extend a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas depend on the militant group locating dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza by civilians and gangs, Qatar’s prime minister has said. A four-day pause in the war brokered by the Gulf state which began on Friday is due to end after Monday.
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russia has claimed it repelled a wave of Ukrainian drone and missile strikes on Sunday, a day after it launched the biggest drone attack on Kyiv since the start of President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale
With Britain’s Telegraph Media Group in its sights, the oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi is closing in on its most audacious push into English-speaking media since the launch of state-owned daily The National 15 years ago. Back then sky-high salaries lured senior journalists to what was being touted as “the New York Times of the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The precarious truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza stretched into a third day on Sunday as both sides prepared for another round of hostage and prisoner releases which are due to take place later
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Geert Wilders, the far-right winner of Dutch parliamentary elections, has said he will compromise on his hardline manifesto in order to convince other parties to back him as prime minister. The anti-Islam firebrand has toned
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the EU’s High Representative for foreign affairs and security policy I have just spent five days in the Middle East. Along with Ukraine, it has become one of the world’s most volatile
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In his Autumn Statement speech on Wednesday Jeremy Hunt, chancellor of the exchequer, stated that he proposed “110 growth measures — don’t worry, I’m not going to go through them all”. I am not going
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An upcoming sale of shares in OpenAI is set to test how much the past week’s leadership chaos has cost the company and its backers, though big investors are bullish about securing a high valuation.
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chinese authorities have opened a probe into Zhongzhi, one of the biggest conglomerates in the country’s sprawling shadow financing market, days after the group declared that it was “severely insolvent”. Beijing police said
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Give someone a list of political leaders and ask which of them have charisma and which don’t, and you will almost always get the same answers. Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Donald Trump? Albeit
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Trading in a controversial type of derivative known as “zero-day” options is spreading to Treasury and commodity markets, as Nasdaq and other exchange groups try to replicate a boom that has transformed trading in US
Of the four men who lined up at an army recruitment centre in Kyiv one morning this month, only one was there voluntarily. Oleksandr, a 34-year-old used-car dealer, said he could no longer watch from the sidelines after five acquaintances were killed in Europe’s biggest war since 1945. He built up a financial cushion for
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Gig economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. EU consumers will have to pay higher prices to cover better rights for gig workers but the increases will not kill the industry’s business model, a senior Brussels official has predicted. Speaking to the Financial
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The National Infrastructure Commission chair has poured cold water on Rishi Sunak’s plan to get private developers to fund an expensive tunnel under London connecting the HS2 rail line to Euston in the heart of
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the EU trade myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Major European shipping nations are resisting the EU’s plans to charge vessels entering their waters for emissions, saying the policy could divert maritime trade away from the bloc. In a letter to the European Commission,
In the 1920s, the Canadian politician Raoul Dandurand described the country as a “fireproof house” — surrounded on three sides by the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans, and with a friendly neighbour in the US to the south. It is a comforting view of the world that has helped define Canada’s identity, even as it
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Cryptocurrencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US’s successful prosecution of Binance’s Changpeng Zhao this week removed the top executive at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, a key target in its efforts to clean up a market with a Wild West reputation.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A slim boy with dark hair and spectacles dashed down an Israeli hospital corridor towards a man in a checked shirt, who scooped him into a bear hug. After 49 days in captivity, including his
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hamas is expected to release at least a dozen more hostages who are being held in the Gaza Strip on Saturday as a four-day truce stretches into its second day. Israel and Hamas conducted the
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Currencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Israeli shekel is the world’s top performing currency this month, driven by billions of dollars of purchases by the central bank since the outbreak of the war with Hamas. The currency has risen by around